In customer centric business environment, it is critical to have an effective plan to manage production capacity, materials availability and...
Demand Planning: The objective of this function is to create a demand plan, based on historical sales data. The demand...
Order based Planning: Order-based planning is the functionality that plans planned orders to cover components and end items. This functionality...
It is of utmost importance for any business enterprise to maintain their existing customers. A proper after sales service through...
In the context of growing market competition, organizations are focusing more on closer partnership across supply chain. Increasing efficiency in...
Service Planning – Attending of unscheduled maintenance tasks arising out of breakdown and faults both for internal and external customer...
Call Handling Proper operation of a help desk is an essential component of proper servicing and resolution of problems. Service...
Kernel of an ERP system comprises of a technical module (set of tools) which provides a foundation to various application...
Users interface directly impact usability of an ERP system. A properly designed user interface provides proper accessibility to the intended...
IN addition to functions covered by technical modules such as user’s management, License management, installation (as discussed in earlier papers),...
Human Resource (HR): Though the pay rolls preparation through bespoke systems is one of the early adoptions of application software...
Project control module is used for organizing long term projects such as building a ship or power plant. The production...
ERP represents a wide suite of applications covering various enterprise functionalities. It also links together departments and business units. Whereas...
Supply Chain Management (SCM): Improvement of supply chain is one of the last frontiers for improving productivity and supply chain...
Business Intelligence (BI) – An ERP product provides hundreds of standard reports, generated weekly or monthly or year end basis...
Conventional shop floor control functionality of an ERP system, for the most part, is suitable for discrete manufacturing. However, during...
In keeping with technological changes in IT sector as well as evolving business need, there are discernable changes in ERP...
The Importance of ERP Software In previous articles on Finance and Human Resource Management, we discussed how the finance and...
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is the lifeblood of any business today. Any business, be it a medium scale enterprise or...